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The USO’s new vice-president, Cesar Loza, spoke about what to expect from the union’s new board of directors.

Like most everyone else in the industry, Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) is having a great year financially and statistically. However, the integrated nature of the the NOC means it takes a bit of work to see what is happening in just the E&P business.

Dear A: Thanks for the Don Julio Reposado the other night in your apartment. It was the perfect antidote to a damp and cold Bogotá night. I looked up the El Tiempo anti-fracking article that had disturbed you so much and it was full of so many half-truths and complete falsehoods, that I wrote this letter to clarify it for you.

Eric Flesh, President of Promigas, assumed the leadership of the firm recently. He spoke about the expansion plans of the firm in Colombia and the region.

The NOC spoke about the increase in local hiring levels nationwide, highlighting positive results.

The union announced that social leader Edwin Palma will be its new president.

President Duque took the stage of the Paris Peace Forum to talk about the Peace Accords with the Farc. Here are the details.

The oil sector continues to insist on the development of unconventional projects in Colombia to increase oil and gas production and reserves in the medium and long term. Francisco José Lloreda, President of the Colombian Petroleum Association (ACP) spoke on this subject and other relevant issues for the industry.

Colombia’s Axia Energía opened its new Termonorte thermoelectric plant in Santa Marta; the first of its kind in the department of Magdalena.

Pasto’s fuel entrepreneurs were hoping for Vice Minister of Energy, Diego Mesa, to clear out ‘rumors’ about fuel prices in Nariño. His speech started another controversy instead.